Influence of Teaching Methods on Teacher Job Performance in Oyo State, Nigeria

The study investigated the influence of teaching methods on teacher job performance in Oyo State, Nigeria. Teaching methods examined include: teacher based, student based, interactive and problem solving. The study was a descriptive survey research which was questionnaire based. The population of the study was all the public secondary school teachers in Oyo State, Nigeria. The research instrument used for data collection was Teacher Job Performance (TJP), with a reliability value = 0.83. Hypotheses were tested at 5% level of significance. Data collected for the study were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Multiple Regression Analysis and t-test for research questions and hypotheses. The study revealed amongst others that the level of teacher job performance was high with the overall weighted average of 2.702. Also, there existed a significant combined influence of teaching methods on teacher job performance in Oyo State. The study concluded that teachers in Oyo State adopted more of teacher based method, interactive method, problem solving method and less of student based method. On the basis of the findings of the study, it is recommended that the government through secondary school management board should device a framework for checkmating and evaluating the effectiveness of teaching methods engaged by teachers.